[ale] Telnet on 7.1

[Charles Marcus]

You can turn xinetd services (and others) on and off in Redhat 7.1 and 7.2
with chkconfig (man chkconfig)...

chkconfig telnet on

Of course you must be root...

Charles

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thompson Freeman [mailto:tfreeman at intel.digichem.net]
> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 2:08 PM
> To: sangell at nan.net
> Cc: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] Telnet on 7.1
>
>
>
> I'm sure somebody will chime in about the security aspects of
> telenet. 'Nuff said on that subject.
>
> Subject to correction by the list, the telnet daemon is
> started by xinetd,
> the super daemon. However, since I've never fooled with that
> level, I'm
> not sure whether the configuration is within the
> /etc/inetd.conf (?) or
> the /etc/services files.
>
> (FWIW - I chimed in here in hopes of encouraging a more
> detailed response,
> which hopefully will improve my own education. Thanks. )
>
>
> On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 sangell at nan.net wrote:
>
> > I want to enable telnet on a 7.1 box and have it listen on
> a non-standard
> > port. I installed webmin to try to configure from there but
> that is not
> > included in the webmin for 7.1. Where and how can I do this
> or can someone
> > point me in the right direction to research this.
> >
> > As always thanks in advance.
> >
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